World History 14

Front 1

Between 800 and 150 ,as the frequenct and intensity of contact with the outside world increased, what was the most significant impant on sub-shaharan Africa

Back 1

The arrival of Islam

Front 2

Which of the following statements concerning the universality of relgion in Africa is most accurate

Back 2

There was no universal religion in Africa, but both Christianity and Islam found adherents

Front 3

Stateless societies in Africa

Back 3

were organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority.

Front 4

What was the function of secret societies in African cultura?

Back 4

Because their membership cut across lineage divisions, they acted to maintain stability within the community and diminish clan feuds

Front 5

What was the weakness of the African Commercial ceonomy?

Back 5

Africa tended to export bullion and raw materials for manufactured products from abroad

Front 6

The grassland belr at the southern edge of the Shara that served as a point of exchange between the forests of the south and North Africa was called

Back 6

Sahel..

Front 7

What kingdom arose in the Sudan following the declin of Ghana in 1076?

Back 7

Mali

Front 8

What was the geographical location of the empire of Mali?

Back 8

between the iger and Senegal Tivers

Front 9

Which of the following monarch was reffered to as Mli's Lion Prince

Back 9

Sundiata

Front 10

Juula were

Back 10

African traders associated with the Mali Empire

Front 11

Which of the following was on of the major port cities of the Mali Empire?

Back 11

Timbuktu

Front 12

Specialists who mastered the oral traditions of the Malinkeand by knowing the past were considered excellent advisors to the kings were called

Back 12

griots

Front 13

Sunni Ali was responsible for the creation of what African Empire?

Back 13

Songhay

Front 14

What accounted for the downfall of Songhay?

Back 14

Invasion by a Moroccan Muslim army equiped with firearms

Front 15

How did contact with the Muslim world affect the African slave trade?

Back 15

With the Muslim conquests of North Africa and commercial penetration to the south, slavery became a more widely diffused phenomenon and the slave trade developed rapidly. Despite the Muslim acceptance of slavery and it widespread use in Islamic.

Front 16

Zanj was the Arabic term for

Back 16

The East African coast

Front 17

What was tupical of the African societies not affected by either Islam or Christianity

Back 17

lack of systems of writing

Front 18

Which of the following regions was typified by city-state organization?

Back 18

Yoruba